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Iran is not welcoming to Western reporters, so Western press aren't pointing their TV cameras out their hotel windows to show the explosions like in 2003. And l
by roywiggins 7mo ago
Iran is not welcoming to Western reporters, so Western press aren't pointing their TV cameras out their hotel windows to show the explosions like in 2003. And locals can't report other than in tiny snatches of text as the internet has been turned off in the country for ages, and one imagines operating a satphone in Iran right now would be a risky endeavor.
- roywiggins 7mo ago(CNN now has a team reporting from Tehran: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/08/world/video/fred-pleitgen-shahran-oil-depot-iran-tehran-us-israel-strikes-intldsk https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/08/world/video/fred-pleitgen-sha... )
- compsciphd 7mo agoAs a simple example, read up on Bourdain's fixers/friends from his famous no reservations episode who were arrested by Iran as spies soon after the episode was filmed.